Re: Cover Crop Incorporation

Floyd Johnson (fjohnson@cillnet.com)
Thu, 13 May 1999 00:49:11 -0500

I don't think any thing could compete in this cover. maybe if rolling
will kill it then we could Aer-Way it and No-till plant. But for the
microbes is the residue better on top or incorporated in top 6" or
deeper?We are trying to build our soil organic matter to 5% or more.
The rolling stalk chopper requires rye to be at least 18" for it to
work most people say to kill it sooner.Will chopper work on red clover
and what would be the time frame?
Elane Ingam spoke about microbes an said the best thing we could do for
them is to keep living roots in soil all of the time. If we kill cover
early to keep it from getting to big ,but cant plant for a while, what
impact is this having on the microbes? Is there any reason to feed
anaerobic microbes?

hschomberg@ag.gov wrote:
>
> Floyd
>
> I am a nieve researcher in the southeast and was wondering why you don't
> plant dirrectly into the residue. That's how I have been working with some
> of the plant material here. I know when we dirrectly plant into green
> material it is a problem but the planting operation seems to crush the
> clover the rye however is a real problem. We are currently looking at
> rolling cover crops to kill them ahead of planting. Wayne Reeves over at
> Auburn is also trying this and has had some success. If you have a forage
> chopper or a cultipacker or something similar you might give it a try.
> I'd be interested in how your system is working.
>
> Harry Schomberg
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